Alcohol perceptions and behavior in a residential peer social network
Alcohol perceptions and behavior in a residential peer social network
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DOI：
10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.08.047
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
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4.4
通讯作者：
Barnett, Nancy P.
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作者：
Kenney, Shannon R.;Ott, Miles;Barnett, Nancy P.
个性化的规范反馈是针对大学生的酒精干预的推荐组成部分。然而，规范的数据通常是通过基于校园的调查收集的，而不是通过实际的参与者-参照人关系。在目前的调查中，我们考察了学生对宿舍同龄人的误解是如何与学生的个人饮酒行为有关的，无论是总体上使用全局问题还是使用特定人的问题被指定为重要同龄人。受试者为108名学生(88%为大一新生，54%为白人，51%为女性)，居住在单一的校园宿舍。参与者完成了一项在线基线调查，在调查中，他们报告了自己的饮酒情况和对同伴饮酒的看法，同时使用了个人同伴网络测量方法和居住同伴的全球同伴感知测量方法。我们使用网络自相关模型来检验假设，网络自相关模型解释了观测之间的内在相关性。总体而言，参与者准确地感知到了被提名的朋友的饮酒情况，但高估了居民同龄人的饮酒情况。与假设一致的是，高估了提名的朋友和全球住宅同伴饮酒预测了更高的个人饮酒量，尽管对提名同伴的看法是更强的预测因素。交互作用分析表明，全球误解和参与者自我报告饮酒之间的关系对酗酒者意义重大，但不是非酗酒者。目前的研究结果解释了学生在已建立的社交网络中对同伴饮酒的看法如何影响饮酒行为，这可能被用来增强规范反馈干预的有效性。(C)2016爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
Personalized normative feedback is a recommended component of alcohol interventions targeting college students. However, normative data are commonly collected through campus-based surveys, not through actual participant-referent relationships. In the present investigation, we examined how misperceptions of residence hall peers, both overall using a global question and those designated as important peers using person-specific questions, were related to students' personal drinking behaviors. Participants were 108 students (88% freshman, 54% White, 51% female) residing in a single campus residence hall. Participants completed an online baseline survey in which they reported their own alcohol use and perceptions of peer alcohol use using both an individual peer network measure and a global peer perception measure of their residential peers. We employed network auto correlation models, which account for the inherent correlation between observations, to test hypotheses. Overall, participants accurately perceived the drinking of nominated friends but overestimated the drinking of residential peers. Consistent with hypotheses, overestimating nominated friend and global residential peer drinking predicted higher personal drinking, although perception of nominated peers was a stronger predictor. Interaction analyses showed that the relationship between global misperception and participant self-reported drinking was significant for heavy drinkers, but not non-heavy drinkers. The current findings explicate how student perceptions of peer drinking within an established social network influence drinking behaviors, which may be used to enhance the effectiveness of normative feedback interventions. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.